gun control is not normally a topic of conversation over the holidays; but the mass shooting in connecticut has changed that in a big way. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters marched across the brooke lidge bridge asking for new gun control legal cause. as there were demonstrations outside of a gun shop in a washington, d.c. to burr,. >> to allow these kinds of guns that have no other purpose than to murder, slaughter innocent people and children is just insane. >> reporter: fear of new gun control legal cause has made the weapons one of the hotst- selling items this christmas. >> two weeks ago you could have bought one gun for, you know, $1400. now out's 25, 27. >> reporter: the debate about gun control legal cause is just as heated here on capitol hill. the nra, one of the most effective lobbying organizations in washington said it will fight any new restrictions. >> every mom and dad what will make them feel better, when they drop their kid off in january, is if we have a police officer in that school. >> reporter: the reaction to that plan was mixed among the parents we spoke with >> i